Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number

Hacker News•Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 02:04 PM•2 min read

Google is now deleting all accounts that do not, and have never had, phone numbers associated with them if they haven't logged in within a year or so. "Urgent: Sign in to your Google Account if you want to keep it" But then it doesn't matter if you log in with the correct username and password a...

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